Literary Animal Studies And The Climate Crisis

Author : Sune Borkfelt,Matthias Stephan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031110207

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Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis by Sune Borkfelt,Matthias Stephan Pdf

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.

Author : Matthias Stephan,Sune Borkfelt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666903775

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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman by Matthias Stephan,Sune Borkfelt Pdf

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Author : Joshua Bulleid
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031383472

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Vegetarianism and Science Fiction by Joshua Bulleid Pdf

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy, as well as how the genres' engagements have been altered to reflect changes in ethical and environmental philosophy. Author Joshua Bulleid examines the representation of vegetarianism in the works of major science fiction authors, including Mary Shelley, H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Marge Piercy, Octavia E. Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood within their evolving social contexts, tracing the development of vegetarian trends and their science fictional representations from the early-nineteenth century to the present day.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009496919

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Vulnerable Earth by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004440654

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Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering by Anonim Pdf

Like an Animal features a number of relevant critical animal studies scholars providing theoretical and empirical accounts on the intersection of border politics, displacement and nonhuman animals.

Author : Carol J. Adams,Michael D. Wise
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610758246

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Pedaling Resistance by Carol J. Adams,Michael D. Wise Pdf

Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built environments that tend to prioritize omnivores and motor vehicles by default. Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling examines the relationship between veganism and cycling through the journeys, experiences, and reflections of a dozen vegan cyclists from the United States and beyond. The essays in this collection explore the unity between cycling for health, work, competition, transport, and joy, and the issues of animal suffering, environmentalism, and speciesism inherent in veganism—all through lenses of class, race, gender, and disability. Pedaling Resistance illuminates themes of everyday resistance and boundary crossing to uncover the greater social and political issues that underlie the decisions to give up animal products and choose cycling over driving.

Author : John Yunker
Publisher : Ashland Creek Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1618220586

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Writing for Animals: New Perspectives for Writers and Instructors to Educate and Inspire by John Yunker Pdf

A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing.

Author : Camilla Brudin Borg,Rikard Wingård,Jørgen Bruhn
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781666937893

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Contemporary Ecocritical Methods by Camilla Brudin Borg,Rikard Wingård,Jørgen Bruhn Pdf

Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered during the last decade. From various perspectives, ecocriticism both adopts and criticizes traditional analytical and theoretical models, resulting in an impressive methodological diversity, pushing the boundaries of the humanities. Contemporary Ecocritical Methods exemplifies this methodological variety and serves as a practical entry into the field. Fourteen chapters, written by scholars from various ecocritical sub-fields of environmental humanities, introduce a rich set of perspectives and their analytical tools.

Author : Justyna Poray-Wybranowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000294613

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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel by Justyna Poray-Wybranowska Pdf

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday. Highlighting the contributions of literary fiction from the postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental humanities, this book reconsiders the novel’s relationship with climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary. Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster studies.

Author : Jiang Lifu
Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649974013

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Literary Animal Studies in the Anthropocene by Jiang Lifu Pdf

In 2000, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul J. Crutzen and marine-science specialist Eugene Stoermer coined the term “Anthropocene” based on the assumption that the global impacts of human activities during the last 300 years are so significant and far-reaching in scale that they lead to a new geological epoch. The Anthropocene is adopted to signify the epoch subsequent to the Holocene in which human actions are shaping the planet so profoundly that they are now acting as a geological force. In this era, human activity is the dominant influence on the environment, and all lives on earth. This is the age we are currently living in, though debates about precisely when it began continue to rage. The term has not as yet officially accepted within the field of geology; however as a frame for understanding a period of geological time marked by the significant impact of human activity on the planet, the Anthropocene has “extraordinary potential”, and it is a “unique term simultaneously oriented to the past, present and future” (Human Animal viii). As Morten T∅nnessen, Kristin Armstrong Oma argued, “no matter what one thinks about the Anthropocene, the notion radically changes how we look at nature, and mankind” (viii).

Author : Timothy Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139495165

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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment by Timothy Clark Pdf

The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.

Author : Helena Duffy,Katarina Leppänen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040025864

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Storying the Ecocatastrophe by Helena Duffy,Katarina Leppänen Pdf

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume’s twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear power, extraction of natural resources and extensive farming, including heavy reliance on pesticides, intersect with intrahuman violence, as fleshed out by heteropatriarchy, racism, (neo)colonialism, and capitalism. They finally argue that human activity has indirectly contributed to other contemporary crises, namely the migrant crisis and the spread of contagious diseases such as Covid-19.

Author : Graham Huggan,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1315768348

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Postcolonial Ecocriticism by Graham Huggan,Helen Tiffin Pdf

This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment across a wide range of postcolonial literary texts and also address key issues such as global warming, food security, human over-population in the context of animal extinction, queer ecology, and the connections between postcolonial and disability theory. Considering the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at: Narratives of development in postcolonial writing Entitlement, belonging and the pastoral Colonial 'asset stripping' and the Christian mission The politics of eating and the representation of cannibalism Animality and spirituality Sentimentality and anthropomorphism The changing place of humans and animals in a 'posthuman' world. With a new preface written specifically for this edition and an annotated list of suggestions for further reading, Postcolonial Ecocriticism offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date introduction to a rapidly expanding field.

Author : Sarah E. McFarland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350177659

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Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction by Sarah E. McFarland Pdf

This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a genre of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic writing usually resists facing the potentiality of human species extinction, following instead traditional generic conventions that imagine primitivist communities of human survivors with the means of escaping the consequences of global climate change. Yet amidst the ongoing sixth great extinction, works that problematize survival, provide no opportunities for social rebirth, and speculate humanity's final end may address the problem of how to reject the impulse of human exceptionalism that pervades climate change discourse and post-apocalyptic fiction. Rather than following the preferences of the genre, the ecocollapse fictions examined here manifest apocalypse where the means for a happy ending no longer exists. In these texts, diminished ecosystems, specters of cannibalism, and disintegrations of difference and othering render human self-identity as radically malleable within their confrontations with the stark materiality of all life. This book is the first in-depth exploration of contemporary fictions that imagine the imbrication of human and nonhuman within global species extinctions. It closely interrogates novels from authors like Peter Heller, Cormac McCarthy and Yann Martel that reject the impulse of human exceptionalism to demonstrate what it might be like to go extinct.

Author : Nora Castle
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031416958

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Animals and Science Fiction by Nora Castle Pdf